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In this article GOOGL Google CEO Sundar Pichai Google Google on Wednesday said it now expects 20% of its employees to work from home after its offices reopen later this year. The company, which owns extensive Silicon Valley real estate, had previously taken a more strict approach to the return to work as the Covid

In this article FB Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in 2017. KENZO TRIBOUILLARD Facebook on Tuesday announced that its Workplace enterprise communications software has now reached 7 million paid subscribers, up 40% from last May’s figure of 5 million. Workplace is enterprise software that companies can use as their internal social network to communicate with their

Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images An email chain revealed by Epic Games as part of its lawsuit against Apple provides earlier context about Facebook’s battle with Apple over its App Store. Last August, Facebook said that Apple’s App Store rules were hampering it from releasing its Facebook Gaming app for iPhones in the

Bill and Melinda Gates Frederic Stevens | Getty Images Bill Gates, co-founder and former CEO of Microsoft, said in a tweet on Monday that he and his wife, Melinda Gates, will be splitting up after 27 years. Financial details are not yet clear. Bill Gates owns 1.37% of Microsoft’s outstanding shares, which are worth more

In this article MSFT Luc(as) de Groot in Berlin. Sonja Knecht On Thursday, Microsoft announced a change coming soon to some of its most visible software. It will choose a new default font for its Office applications, such as Word and Excel. And that means people will no longer be seeing so much of the

In this article ROKU Alison Levin, Roku’s VP of ad sales and strategy Source: Roku In late spring 2020, Alison Levin was outside in her backyard with her young daughter and golden retriever. Both were running as quickly as they could — at one another, for the same ball. Inevitably, they collided.  “She went down,

Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX and chief executive officer of Tesla, waves while arriving to a discussion at the Satellite 2020 Conference in Washington, D.C., on Monday, March 9, 2020. Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Neuralink President Max Hodak announced on Saturday, via Twitter, that he is no longer with the health tech

Karen Bleier | AFP | Getty Images Verizon‘s $9 billion bet on AOL and Verizon hasn’t led to riches for shareholders of the largest U.S. wireless company. But other buyers may still find value in some of the assets. Verizon is weighing a sale of Verizon Media Group — previously called Oath, and before that,

In this article AAPL Apple CEO Tim Cook Spencer Platt | Getty Images In February, Apple CEO Tim Cook told shareholders that the company had bought about 100 companies in the past six years. That works out to the iPhone maker buying a company every three to four weeks. The statistic gives the impression of

In this article GOOGL MSFT AMZN AAPL FB Gwyn Photography | Digital Vision | Getty Images The tech industry is really two industries. There are the five giants, which operate at an almost unimaginable scale, and then there’s everybody else. Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft all reported March-quarter earnings this week, and some of

Food and agriculture tech investor Arama Kukutai standing in a vertical farm built by Plenty in South San Francisco. Courtesy: Finistere Ventures Food and agriculture start-ups attracted a record $22.3 billion in venture funding last year — that’s twice as much as these segments raised in 2019, according to a comprehensive new study from Finistere

In this article AMZN Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon Katherine Taylor | Reuters Amazon is set to report first quarter earnings after the bell Thursday. Here’s what analysts are expecting:  Earnings: $9.54 per share, according to Refinitiv Revenue: $104.47 billion, according to Refinitiv Few companies have benefited from the pandemic-fueled surge of online shopping as

In this article DASH UBER LYFT Marty Walsh, testifies on his nomination to be Secretary of Labor before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions on February 4, 2021, in Washington, DC. Graeme Jennings | AFP | Getty Images Shares of Lyft, Uber and DoorDash dropped sharply Thursday after Secretary of Labor Marty

In this article AAPL NEW YORK, NEW YORK – SEPTEMBER 20: Apple CEO Tim Cook greets customers at the grand reopening of Apple’s flagship Apple Fifth Avenue retail store on September 20, 2019 in New York City. Taylor Hill | WireImage | Getty Images After a shockingly strong quarter in which Apple revenue grew 54%

J.P. Morgan Wealth Management ad campaign launching in April. YouTube JPMorgan‘s wealth management unit is launching a major ad campaign as it tries to endear itself to younger investors.  It’s the first multi-channel ad campaign from the group since the company folded up certain wealth-management operations into a unit back in December 2019. That unit

Susan Wojcicki, CEO, YouTube speaking at #VidCon, July 23, 2015. Harriet Taylor | CNBC Google’s YouTube is already the world’s largest online video platform. If continues growing the way it has the last several quarters, it could also match Netflix in revenues by year’s end. In its first-quarter earnings report Tuesday, Google parent company Alphabet

In this article TILE AAPL Tile Sticker and Apple AirTag Todd Haselton | CNBC Apple‘s $29 AirTag lost-item tracker begins shipping on April 30. I walked through what it’s like last week, but I recently bought a similar tracker from Tile. Tile has been in the lost-item tracking business for several years, and now counts

In this article TSLA CEO of Tesla Motors Elon Musk reacts following the company’s initial public offering at the NASDAQ market in New York June 29, 2010 Brendan McDermid | Reuters Tesla is slated to report first-quarter earnings after the bell on Monday. Here’s what analysts are expecting, according to estimates compiled by Refinitiv: Earnings: 79

In this article AAPL iPhone 12 Pro Max Todd Haselton | CNBC Apple released iOS 14.5, its big new software update for iPhones, on Monday. The update adds a lot of new features, like updates to Siri, Podcasts, Apple News and support for the latest game console controllers. But the one that’s been grabbing headlines